WoRMS taxon details
Microphiopholis Turner, 1985
AphiaID: 244699
AphiaID: 244699
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Ophiurida (Order) > Ophiurina (Suborder) > Gnathophiurina (Infraorder) > Amphiuridae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Amphiuridae Ljungman, 1867 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Micropholis Thomas, 1966 (junior homonym of Microphiopholis Huxley, 1859) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Turner, R.L. 1985. Microphiopholis, replacement name for Micropholis Thomas, 1966 (Ophiuroidea: Amphiuridae) NON Huxley, 1859 (Amphibia: Dissorophidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Wshington 98(4): 1028-1029. [details] basis of record (from synonym): ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Microphiopholis atra (Stimpson, 1852) Species Microphiopholis geminata (LeConte, 1851) Species Microphiopholis gracillima (Stimpson, 1854) Species Microphiopholis platydisca (Nielsen, 1932) Species Microphiopholis puntarenae (Lütken, 1856) Species Microphiopholis subtilis (Ljungman, 1867) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Taxonomic status: The status of this genus name remains unclear, recognized by some authors, refused by others. No formal revision seems to have been coducted yet. [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:244699 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
| |||||||||||||
[Taxonomic tree] [Distribution map] [Google] [Google scholar] [Google images] | ||||||||||||||
| Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Microphiopholis Turner, 1985. In: Stöhr, S. & O’Hara, T. (Eds) (2013) World Ophiuroidea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=244699 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||
 The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License |